|  Wys³any: 2019-04-24 07:49:50 Temat postu: coach is over. The Panthers fired Horach
SUNRISE, Fla. -- With a relatively young team, Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon is of the belief that the club needs an experienced coach behind the bench. And with that, Peter Horacheks time as interim coach is over. The Panthers fired Horachek on Tuesday, after Florida went 26-36-4 under him this past season. Horachek had no previous NHL coaching experience before replacing Kevin Dineen on Nov. 8 and while Tallon lauded the interim coachs work with the club, he simply thinks that a change in direction is needed. "We just felt as a group that it wasnt quite the right fit with the direction that were headed in," Tallon said. Tallon said theres no timetable for finding a new coach, other than that the team wants to make a hire before the draft in late June. He said Peter Laviolette -- who was fired by the Philadelphia Flyers after only three games of this season -- is on his list of candidates, and theres also speculation that he could target former Nashville coach Barry Trotz. "Were going to interview every possible candidate and take our time and make the right decision," Tallon said. Horachek had been the coach of Floridas AHL affiliate in San Antonio before being summoned to lead the Panthers. Tallon said Horachek will not remain with the organization in any capacity. The team will urge the next coach to keep assistant coaches John Madden and Brian Skrudland, both of whom Tallon has in high regard. Horacheks fate was decided in the last few days and he accepted the move when told Tuesday in a "classy" manner, Tallon said. The coaching decision is one of many changes for the Panthers in recent months, with more moves coming. The team was bought last fall by New York businessman Vincent Viola, had a change in the executive ranks when Michael Yormark left as team president earlier this year, and the Panthers brought back longtime fan favourite Roberto Luongo late in this season. Plus, the team has stockpiled plenty of picks in the next two drafts and won the right to draft No. 1 overall this year. "Were not starting over," Tallon said. "Weve got a lot of young players on our team now, well have a few more added each year as we move forward and now we have to surround them with the right NHL players and pieces that we will attack in free agency or by trading some of these assets that we have." The Panthers have had seven different coaches in their last 10 seasons, with Dineen the only one in the group to take Florida to the playoffs. And the next coach will be Tallons third since he took over in Florida. Hes hoping history repeats itself with this move. Tallon was most recently the GM in Chicago and his third coach there was Joel Quenneville -- who led the Blackhawks to Stanley Cup titles in 2010 and 2013. "It took me three in Chicago to get it right," Tallon said. "So its not an easy task. Its all about getting it right. Yeah, its important. Thats why were going to take our time and really investigate and interview various candidates and do our homework and try to get the right fit." Florida finished with the second-lowest point total in the NHL this season and missed the playoffs for the 12th time in 13 seasons. The Panthers last won a playoff series in 1996, the year they lost to Colorado in the Stanley Cup finals. "He did a good job," Tallon said of Horachek. "He came in a worked hard and tried to turn things around in a hurry." Florida ranked 29th in the 30-team NHL in goals scored this season, plus were abysmal on special teams. The Panthers ranked last in the league with a 10 per cent power-play success rate -- the worst percentage posted by any team since 2000-01 -- along with a 76 per cent penalty-kill rate. The Panthers were out of the playoff race early once again, finishing 27 points out of the eighth and last post-season spot in the Eastern Conference. Pat Tillman Jersey . Mohamed Diame put West Ham ahead in the 47th minute before goals by substitutes Carlton Cole and Joe Cole condemned Fulham to a fifth straight defeat, keeping the visitors in the bottom three. Custom Arizona Cardinals Jerseys . But sometimes the way you lose takes precedence over the final score. And how the Jets lost the 5-4 game to the New York Islanders on Thursday is what had Coach Claude Noel hot after the game. http://www.officialarizonacardinalspro.com/Adrian-wilson-cardinals-jersey/ . He wants to seize that opportunity. The trouble is, Firus has had more bumps on the road to Sochi than most. 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It should be a tight battle for the rest of the year, said a buoyant Christian Horner after Max Verstappen finished second at Silverstone. But Arrivabene continues to insist his Ferrari team are focusing on winning the title ahead of Mercedes. At this stage of the season if I say we are going to give up, its not absolutely correct. We need to be focused, the Ferrari team principal said. In terms of problems, bad luck and everything we have had already, we are at the top in terms of points. But I hope that these kind of points go down and we start to get better.To say we give up, not at all. I think the fact that Red Bull has performed very well is good for Formula 1, but I still think that our target is Mercedes and not Red Bull.In the drivers standings, Kimi Raikkonen is the highest-placed non-Mercedes driver in third on 106 points, followed by Red Bulls Daniel Ricciardo six points back in fourth.Raikkonens team-mate Sebastian Vettel is two points behind the Australian in fifth while Verstappen in sixth on 90 points.Speaking at the in-season test at Silverstone this week, Raikkonen reiterated Arrivabenes point: Were not going to give up until its not possible anymore, he said. Mercedes is ahead of everybody right now but that doesnt mean we should give up. After the race at Silverstone, Vettel admitted that Red Bull seemed to have taken a step forward.Speaking to Sky Sports News HQs Craig Slater, the German said: I think they probably did, so fair enough, but I think we did a step back so we need to see why these conditions - the tyres, the circuit, the wind - didnt suit us and we were struggling so much. Red Bull boss Horner, meanwhile, has good reason to think his team can be the ones to challenge Mercedes.After the race at Silverstone, he said: Weve out-scored Ferrari by 15 points here [18 after Rosbergs penalty], we out-scored them last week by 13 points, and some of the circuits coming up should play to our strengths.We have a very strong car, two great driverrs and the engine is improving.ddddddddddddRed Bulls improved performance also hasnt gone unnoticed by the world champions. Nico Rosberg had this to say on their recent performances after Sundays race: Theyve done well to catch up. Were still the best but lately they have been our closest competitor. For sure we need to keep an eye on them. Sometimes its Ferrari, sometimes its Red Bull which definitely helps us. Its good to fight against them - it was great to have a battle with Max, he said of his race-long battle with Verstappen for second place.A battle he eventually lost, after he was demoted to third when Mercedes were penalised by the stewards for illegal radio messages. Red Bulls Max Verstappen pulls off the best overtake of the British Grand Prix going past Nico Rosberg Rosberg also thinks the coming races could tell a lot about who will be the real threat to Mercedes, with teams beginning to switch their focus to the development of their 2017 cars.Its going to be interesting now to see how much development still happens. 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coach is over. The Panthers fired Horach
